Bettelou Los, G. Dreschler, Ans M. C. van Kemenade, E. Komen, Stefano Coretta
{"title":"The decline of local anchoring: a quantitative investigation","authors":"Bettelou Los, G. Dreschler, Ans M. C. van Kemenade, E. Komen, Stefano Coretta","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000047","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a quantitative study of the referential status of PPs in clause-initial position in the history of English. Earlier work (Los 2009; Dreschler 2015) proposed that main-clause-initial PPs in Old English primarily function as ‘local anchors’, linking a new clause to the immediately preceding discourse. As this function was an integral part of the verb-second (V2) constraint, the decline of local anchors was attributed to the loss of V2 in the fifteenth century, so that only the contrasting and frame-setting functions of these PPs remain in PDE. This article tests these hypotheses in the syntactically parsed corpora of OE, ME, EModE and LModE texts, using the Pentaset-categories (New, Inert, Assumed, Inferred or Identity; Komen 2011), based on Prince's categories (Prince 1981). The finding is that Identity clause-initial PPs decline steeply from early ME onwards, which means the decline pre-dates the loss of V2. A likely trigger is the loss of the OE paradigm of demonstrative, which functioned as standalone demonstrative pronouns as well as demonstrative determiners, and the loss of gender marking more generally. From EModE onwards, main-clause-initial PPs that still link to the preceding discourse do so much more indirectly, by an Inferred link.","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83952452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ingrid Paulsen, The emergence of American English as a discursive variety: Tracing enregisterment processes in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers (Language Variation 7). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. vi + 450. ISBN 9783985540341.","authors":"Marco Wiemann","doi":"10.1017/s1360674323000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674323000096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86749152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tobias Bernaisch (ed.), Gender in World Englishes (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 235. ISBN 9781108696739.","authors":"Ole Schützler","doi":"10.1017/s1360674322000521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674322000521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83539741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maryann Overstreet and George Yule, General extenders: The forms and functions of a new linguistic category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 9781108837231.","authors":"K. Beeching","doi":"10.1017/s136067432200048x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s136067432200048x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79397365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noun sequential constructions in Korean grammar books of the early 20th century","authors":"hanjin Jeong","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78317479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Speech Characteristics and Speech Recognition Errors in Korean Back Rounded Vowels","authors":"Albert Kim","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83836353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Masiᛌi-da’ as the Causative Verb of ‘Masi-da(Drink)’ and its Changes","authors":"H. Kim","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89450562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Dialogue Interface based on Large Language Models - The state of the art AI dialogue models and seeking linguistic research topics -","authors":"","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75298205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception of Subject and Topic in Early Modern Korean Grammar","authors":"J. Jeon","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80951135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study on the probabilistic hierarchy of epistemic periphrastic constructions","authors":"","doi":"10.15811/jkl.2023..105.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2023..105.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36216,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73879078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}